It’s our time to make a moveIt’s our time to make amendsIt’s our time to break the rulesLet’s begin— X Ambassadors, Renegades If you want to feel hope for the future, go to a ceremony honoring High School graduates awarded their scholarships. I was awestruck hearing their accomplishments over the last four years, much of…
I want to break free, I want to break freeI want to break free from your liesYou’re so self-satisfied I don’t need youI’ve got to break freeGod knows, God knows I want to break free— Queen, I Want to Break Free When does a great habit ground another habit before it can take off? Are…
“Some arrogance is essential to the creative process. The very idea that your private thoughts or feelings are worth sharing with anyone outside your family or friends is already a kind of arrogance. Arrogance is the exit and entry point to the humiliation that art requires. Not unrelated is a dubious courage that when you…
“I hadn’t done drugs since sniffing Lady Esquire shoe polish when I was fifteen. I didn’t need to. I felt the pinch of wonder. I felt everything sharply, the people we met, the sensation of being in a body, of eating and drinking. I knew there was darkness in the world, but I was sure…
Most people search allof their livesfor someplace to belong toas you saidbut I look insteadinto the eyes of anyonewho talks to me— June Jordan, Poem For a Young Poet We know how this works when we’ve lived awhile. People come and go from our lives, some never to return, and we move on without them….
Sleep baby sleepNow that the night is overAnd the sun comes like a godInto our roomAll perfect light and promises— INXS, New Sensation The days of May grow longer and full of daylight, which means that the early morning hours are brighter and full of their own promise. These are the days when I wake…
“When conditions are such that life offers no earthly hope, somewhere, somehow, men must find a refuge.” — Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way Everybody wants to go to heavenGet their wings and fly aroundEverybody want to go to heavenBut nobody want to go now— Jim Collins / Marty Dodson, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven…
The legends of music are falling like autumn leaves now. Each one a gut punch of nostalgia and loss. I’d hoped to see Gordon Lightfoot this year, but he cancelled his tour just a few weeks before passing away last night. It felt like the end was near for him, and here we are. It’s…
“All people, no matter who they are, all wish they’d appreciated life more. It’s what you do in life that’s important, not how much time you have or what you wished you’d done.” — David Bowie “If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go…
“If today’s social media has taught us anything about ourselves as a species, it is that the human impulse to share overwhelms the human impulse for privacy.” ― Kevin Kelly, The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future But all the promises we makeFrom the cradle to the graveWhen all I…